Jazz is often known as the music of the black people of America who settled in the South around the early 1900s. It had its’ origin in a place in America called New Orleans, grew in popularity and brought young people together. At that time, jazz music also served to bring black and white people together in their love for this unique fast and rhythmic music. During that period, jazz music provided an opportunity for various people to publicly integrate and was a great social unifier,
Jazz music has had influences from Europe as well as Africa and in the 20th century, it continues to evolve many styles like soul jazz, free jazz and even jazz rock fusion.There are many innovative musicians who continue to reinvent jazz and improvise on it when they are actually playing the song.. Jazz music is soulful, creative and has a melody and harmony which is memorable. The heartbeat of the song is its’ rhythm which can be catchy, fast, happy or even complicated. Some features in jazz music are bee bop, swing and ragtime which helped to create these wonderful melodies and rhythms.